Book Quote by Robert Greene

My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it, so I…

— Tom King

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood.…

— Tom Perrotta

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out…

— William Styron

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

— Sidney Sheldon

There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth…

— Sara Zarr

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which…

— Gail Carson Levine

At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an…

— Jose Saramago

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher…

— Jeff Kinney

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

— Sara Paretsky

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed…

— Tim Howard

I had been writing professionally since 1988

— Laura Hillenbrand